The mass executions have
been taking place some 50 km from Mosul since Friday, according
to a local official from the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP),
Hassan Khallo. He told Kurdish news agency BasNews that the
terrorists have been bringing their prisoners, including many
women and children, into one place.

“IS (Islamic State, formerly ISIS) gathered them in one place
and shot them altogether,” Khallo said. “Along with the
the Yazidis, IS militants killed a number of Shi’ite people as
well.”

Nujaifi was quick to point out that ISIS is “degrading”
Islam with their brutal crimes, as he called on the Muslim cleric
community expose IS’s heresies.

The Yazidi Progress (al-Taqadom) Party confirmed the mass murder,
however stating a lower death toll of about 300 people. The
statement released on Saturday condemned the “heinous
criminal act.”

The group called on the international community and the Iraqi
government to intervene and secure the release of remaining
Yazidi hostages, thousands of whom are still in captivity since
IS first raided their villages last summer.

Meanwhile Shahin Shingali, a fighter in the ranks of the
Peshmerga forces, told ARA news, that without direct intervention
from the West, Iraq see further “genocides” against innocent
people.